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Cecily
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The long middle section (amid very short chapters) of intimate, poetic emails is even more exquisite than the rest. The world of an oppressed Kuwaiti woman is totally unfamiliar to me, and yet we have so much in common. Literature unites us. More than half way through and this is one of the best books I’ve ever read. And it was strange circs that led me to it. Im so glad.
— Apr 28, 2019 08:50AM
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A heartbreakingly beautiful, positive paean to the power of the compulsion to write, whatever the personal cost. Also, a fascinating insight into Kuwaiti culture, which I knew little about.
“The moment that poetry materialises in my life not as an identity or talent, but as a saviour, an active force in my life.”
Review to come.
— May 02, 2019 07:57AM
“The moment that poetry materialises in my life not as an identity or talent, but as a saviour, an active force in my life.”
Review to come.
Cecily
is on page 27 of 224
I picked this up, having never heard of it or the author, and knowing almost nothing about it. Stunning so far. Viscerally poetic and unexpectedly pertinent on sudden bereavement. One to relish, slowly.
"I embrace the shattered pieces of myself so that I might write...
Give me my language so that I might think, so that I might exist,
So that I might know myself, so that I might know You."
— Apr 23, 2019 01:00PM
"I embrace the shattered pieces of myself so that I might write...
Give me my language so that I might think, so that I might exist,
So that I might know myself, so that I might know You."
